PEBS Neuroethics News Roundup from Johns Hopkins

Last Edition's Most Popular Article Problems with 'cognitive enhancing' drugs on the rise In the Academic Literature: Intact rapid detection of fearful faces in the absence of the amygdala Nature Neuroscience 2009 August 30 Personal space regulation by the human amygdala Nature Neuroscience 2009 August 30 MRI assessment of cortical thickness and functional activity changes in adolescent girls following three months of practice on a visual-spatial task  BMC Research Notes 2009:2(174) Direct activation of sparse, distributed populations of cortical neurons by electrical microstimulation  Neuron 2009:63(4):508-522 Patterns of neural activity associated with honest and dishonest moral decisions  PNAS 2009:106(30):12506-12511 Neuroanatomy of creativity  Human Brain Mapping August 31 2009 Control: conscious and otherwise Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2009 August:13(8): 341-7 Abnormal hippocampal shape in offenders with psychopathy  Human Brain Mapping August 28 2009 Neural decoding of goal locations in spatial navigation in humans with fMRI  Human Brain Mapping August 31 2009 Bithalamical deep brain stimulation in tourette syndrome Is associated with reduction in dopaminergic transmission  Biological Psychiatry August 26 2009 Ethics of  human enhancement: 25 questions and answers  National Science Foundation  In the Popular Press: Answers to life's worries, in three-minute bursts  The New York Times August 30 2009 Epigenetic suicide note  The Scientist 2009:23(8):18 fMRI and lying - an interesting, different approach  Stanford Center for Law & the Biosc. Blog Look ma, no pen! electrical impulses can reproduce handwriting  Wired Science August 28 2009  Why AI is a dangerous dream  New Scientist September 1 2009 Brain boosting, thought scanning and other neuroethics issues  Reuters Blog August 31 2009 Bionic brain chips could overcome paralysis   New Scientist September 1 2009   Gorilla sexual intrigue could explain human monogamy  New Scientist September 2 2009  How to be happy  Practical Ethics The Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS) is a collaborative effort of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the  Johns Hopkins Brain Sciences Institute . The goal of PEBS is to ensure that research in brain science proceeds with an informed understanding of ethical issues, and that philosophical and empirical analyses of the advances in brain research proceed with an informed understanding of the science. With the PEBS Neuroethics News Roundup, we will present a weekly survey of the most pertinent and thought-provoking new articles from both peer-reviewed academic journals and the popular press.